- The vast bulk of my massive Web presence (over 485 pages) had been hosted by AT&T's WorldNet service since 30 May 1996;
they dropped WorldNet effective 31 Mar 2010 and I have been scrambling to transfer everything. Everything's saved but all the links have to be changed,
mostly by hand. See my sbiii.com Transfer Page for any updates on this tedious process.

CSXT AC100CBW and NSC CB100W-10 10,000 horsepower locos!
Also, see the fabled BW DDP45 and other EMD engines EMD may never have dreamed of!]

Insanity doesn't run in my family, it just sort of dawdles along.

Because the Apocrypha and Guest Apocrypha indices exceeded the capacity of the individual pages, they are now presented in full on a separate
Berlinerwerke Apocrypha Index (including the Guest Apocrypha Index). Similarly, I can logically expect
that the GG1 Apocrypha will get out of hand and so have created a separate page for it.

THE BERLINERWERKE GG1 APOCRYPHA

Well, the whole BW Apocrypha may have started with the secret project and the DDP45 noted above but an e-mail dated 02 Apr 2008 at 01:50 (AM) and with the catchy
subject: "Bizarre GG1 Derivative images" did indeed catch my eye - WOW - did it ever! Out of the blue, Jeff Delhaye told me that over the past
3 months he had cut and pasted together quite a few (>700) bizarre/strange derivatives of the PRR GG1 locomotive. He went on to state that these include steam
turbine, gas turbine, and Diesel versions, in wheel arrangements from 0-4-0 to well, - totally ridiculous. He has hosted these drawings at
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~cbq9911BUT they were ALL on one page! Even with high-speed DSL, it took over 5 minutes to load the page! At my
urgent urging, Jeff immediately redid the page such that each category is now separate:

I immediately got hooked and suggested a dome-lounge and a string of other varnish; Jeff immediately fired off this one:

(Image courtesy J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved))

Now, you should understand that Jeff's work (mania?) started with a site put up by a Swedish gentleman named Peter Cornéer,
http://hem.bredband.net/petcor/. Peter's site is simply amazing and well worth your while to visit. Thereon, Jeff found the seminal Pennsy GG1 drawing in
classic PRR passenger Tuscan Red:
(04 Jul 2017)

(Image by P. Cornéer - all rights reserved))

which he thereupon converted to DGLE (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel - so-called "Brunswick Green", a Pennsy freight color often specified as a 55-gallon drum of black
with a thimble-full of green stirred in):

(Image courtesy J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved))

From these two seminal images grew the obsession!

As I told Jeff, are they ever contagious! Witness my DD4 (I already have a DD3, if you recall):

I've always wanted to do this! It's all Jeff's fault, not that I needed Peter's or his images, but he got me going on this! Thank you, thank you, thank you,
Jeff.

Whil(e)(st) Jeff was working the night of 02/03 Apr, I was playing:

(03 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll, baby, scroll!]

A self-propelled schnabel! Unfortunately, it didn't quite work for me. Oh, well. Mayhap back to the drawing board some time;
I tried to change the color from red to Tuscan but there are too many shades and nooks and crannies; besides, the schnabel load arms are DB, NOT PRR. You may notice
that the inner ends can be coupled to run light.

While I was downloading Jeff's many images, I created the Queen Mary (PRR 47025) GG1:

(03 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

I was away for a week but got inspired on my return to try a GG1 steam turbine á là the UP coal turbine #80 (later #8080):

(12 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

Norman Clubb, of Rhunian State Railways (RSR) fame, asked about a GG1 version of Big Liz, the 1914 2-C-C-2 monster jack-shaft electric boxcab;
well an FF version of a GG1 ain't much, so I tried it and came up with the FF3 Lil' Liz:

After the Pennsy ran the II3 for a while, it's long wheelbase was deemed a bit stiff for yard and branchline conditions, even though the two engines were articulated,
so the Ersatzs modified the body and main frame to articulate the whole locomotive:

Hoo, boy (or girl)! Something's been bothering me about the rear (right) end of the folded pan(tagraph)s and I finally figured it out; Jeff's gonna HATE
me! On Peter's GG1, there is a forward(left)-facing horn mounted on the windshield casing, overlapped by the pan knuckle:

(Enlargement of image by P. Cornéer - all rights reserved))

Well Jeff and I had slavishly copied that detail into our images; not having some 350 or so images to fix, I went right ahead and corrected it on my work copies:

and pieced that into those seven images above that needed it - the dome car, the DD4, the "original" GG1 boxcab, the Ingalls, the FF3, and the two II3s. Jeff says
he was aware of the "hidden" horn, and decided to leave it on most of the locomotives it appears on, as a backup/hostlers horn (!); it is no longer a bug, it has become
a feature!

Thinking of other possibilities, why not a GG1-based electric 250-ton crane, with tender (the underframe of which may look familiar)?

(15 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

Jeff caught me out on misaligned shadows on windows, doors, and ends; I really should be more careful.

It was originally my intent to post ALL of Jeff's images but, since he re-did his site, there's no need. However, here's an (17 Apr 2008) image he sent me, inspired
by my crane (above), that I really can't resist posting here:

(Image courtesy J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved))

A double-ended electric rotary, with flanger, no less! I may have to play with this one, though. You DO know, don't you, that the realG½ was a snow blower? We shall see what the BW files might cough up.

Long before Germany's Windhoff "CargoSprinter" or its British Rail MPV (Multi-Purpose Vehicle) equivalent, or Dresden's "CarGoTram" (which runs between two VW plants),
Germany cooked up what amounted to a powered baggage car, which gave the Ersatzs the idea of trying a self-propelled LCL unit for the Pennsy, based on the GG1 (of course):
(18 Apr 08)

Of course, being the Berlinerwerke Apocrypha, we just HAD to have more Ersatz locos, so, from the 2-4-6-8, it was only to be expected that we would have a
2-4-6-8-10:

(20 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

Needless to say, Ira then HAD to design a 2-4-6-8-10-12:

(20 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

That should be about it for this series of monster locos (loco monsters?).

Oh, sure! It seems that when containerization reared it's ugly head, George Ersatz urged brother Ira to get there "fustest with the mustest"; Ira went to the
immensely-successful Sprinter to come up with the Pennsy's first high-speed branch-line container delivery system, the Stacker. The basic GG1 derivative
could handle any standard 20' container; for the occasional 40'er (or additional 20's), a special matching well-flat car was available:

(21 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

Double-stacking was out of the question then because of low-wire clearance problems.

George found out that the Pennsy needed an inspection car for the electrified corridor and Ira came right up with the BW's Ersatz E10i:

Perhaps THAT one should have been named Catenary View! It has a small diesel and batteries in the short hood to carry it through gaps and areas with
downed or deactivated wire.

The BW's collaboration with the Rhunian State Railways (RSR) led George to hear of a need for RSR brass to inspect both their electrified and
non-electrified territory. He introduced them to the PRR E10i and they loved it, but then-Chief Engineer Mikhail Rodnivacek nixed the idea because the E10i's
little auxiliary diesel simply couldn't hack it in Rhunia's hill country. Ira then hit on the novel idea of stretching a surplus RSR class 323-2a, converting it
to oil firing, moving the fuel and water tanks into the space between the engines, and grafting on an E10i-style Directors' greenhouse:

When one of the Pennsy's top brass from Broad Street visited Montréal, he was quite taken by their old stepped-seating open trolley cars and casually asked George Ersatz
if the Berlinerwerke could create a bigger version for the City of Brotherly Love. Never at a loss for ideas, George put Ira to work on it and he thought of
a stretched, open E10i inspection car:

No sooner said then done! Each seat even has its own tinted windshield/screen (that baby was FAST!).

Jeff delivered a two-car electric MU Viewliner set designed especially to allow the passengers to view the Allegheny Scenery. Based on the E10i Inspection
car, this set was intended for the Horseshoe Curve area after the proposed electrification of the Middle Division (which, of course, never happened), so the Ersatzs ran
it through the BW's shops for very minor modifications, including semi-permanent coupling, full height diaphragms to allow upper deck passage between sections, and
redecoration as the "Kittanning View":

(24 Apr 2008 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

Since it never ran west under its own power beyond Harrisburg to Altoona and Pittsburg (no wire), its entire short service life was restricted to the NE Corridor.

The Kittaning View was so popular during its brief running time that a major rebuild was scheduled, based on George Ersatz's hype and Ira Ersatz's rendering reproduced here; the units were to be
stretched dramatically and further articulated into a four-car set:
(22 Oct 2018)

(22 Oct 2018 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

It was to have been renamed "Kittaning View Two" (you may note Ira's error, there), featured greatly expanded dome space, more than twice as many lounge seats, AND added rest rooms
(a serious oversight in the earlier version)! This one never even got beyond the drawing board when electrified service was halted at Harrisburg West.

Before the Pennsy gave up on extending wire out to the Mid-West, consideration was given to Viewliner service along the route of the old Three C railroad that served Cincinnati, Columbus, and
Cleveland, the CC&C. George got wind of this, had Ira whip up a proposal drawing, and here, out of the depths of the files, it is:
(29 Dec 2018)

(29 Dec 2018 image by S. Berliner, III, after J. Delhaye, after P. Cornéer - all rights reserved)
[Click on thumbnailed long image for larger one and scroll away!]

The Viewliner Six-Car Electric MU Set "Kittanning View 123" would have had two special cars inserted in the middle - full-bilevel, each with a restroom [but we already know what came of that
bright idea, don't we?].

I always wondered at the incredibly tight security at the Berlinerwerke during WWII; now it can be told! See, for starters, the wild site of Sig Case,
Rails to the Stars - Steam in Space, files from the National Aeronautics and Steam Administration and the
tie-in to the Berlinerwerke V1 on Apocrypha Page 2.